Canada’s western city of Calgary is the world’s best city when it comes to healt
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Canada’s western city of Calgary is the world’s best city when it comes to healthy living, local press reported Monday.
According to an international survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, a London-based consulting firm, Calgary was put at the top of a list of 144 cities. It scored 121 points, just above Honolulu’s score of 120. Helsinki（赫尔辛基，芬兰首都） and Ottawa followed at 119.5 and 118.5 respectively.
Three other Canadian cities came in the top 20. Montreal and Vancouver tied for ninth and Toronto came in at 18th.
The scores are based on air pollution levels, availability and quality of hospitals and medical supplies, as well as the efficiency of waste removal and sewage systems.
In America, the lowest scoring city was Atlanta, which was ranked 76th. Athens was the lowest scoring city in Western Europe, ranking 120th because of its air pollution. London was ranked 59th.
小题1:How many Canadian cities are in the top 20?小题2:Which of the following is NOT taken into account when the cities were scored?| A．Weather conditions. | B．Air quality. | | C．Waste removal. | D．Medical supplies. |
小题3:Among the following cities, which is the lowest scoring one?| A．Atlanta. | B．Athens. | C．London. | D．Helsinki. |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B |
解析
试题分析：
小题1:.C 计算题。根据第二段可知Calgary排名第一，Ottawa第四；第三段中提到还有3个加拿大城市，共5个加拿大城市，故C正确。
小题2:A 细节题。根据文章第四段The scores are based on air pollution levels, availability and quality of hospitals and medical supplies, as well as the efficiency of waste removal and sewage systems说明BCD三项都是打分的依据，A项没有提到。
小题3:B 细节题。根据文章最后一段Athens was the lowest scoring city in Western Europe, ranking 120th because of its air pollution.说明B正确。
点评：文章介绍了一个关于世界上上最适合居住的城市的排名。考查细节题较多。在解答这类问题时要求学生抓住题干文字信息，采用针对性方法进行阅读，因为这类题的答案在文章中可以直接找到。 |
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Cara Lang is 13. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts, in the U. S. Last Thursday, she didn"t go to school. She went to work with her father instead. Every year, on the fourth Thursday in April, millions of young girls go work. This is Take Our Daughters to Work Day. The girls are between the ages of 9 and 15. They spend the day at work with an adult, usually a mother, father, aunt, or uncle. They go to offices, police stations, laboratories, and other places where their parents or other family members work. Next year, the day will include sons, too.
The Ms. Foundation, an organization for women, started the program about ten years ago. In the U.S., many women work outside the home. The Ms. Foundation wanted girls to find out about many different kinds of jobs. Then, when the girls grow up, they can choose a job they like.
Cara"s father is a film director. Cara says, “It was very exciting for me to go to the studio with my dad. I saw a lot of people doing different jobs.” Many businesses have special activities for girls on this day. Last year, Cara went to work with her aunt at the University of Massachusetts. In the engineering department, the girls learned to build a bridge with toothpicks and Candy. In the chemistry department, they learned to use scales. They learned about many other kinds of jobs, too.
Right now, Cara does not know what job she will have when she grows up. But because of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, she knows she has many choices.
小题1:What is Cara"s father?| A．An engineer. | B．An official. | C．A moviemaker. | D．A professor. |
小题2:According to the passage, Take our Daughters to work Day is ______.| A．on every Thursday in Apri | | B．a holiday for girls of all ages | | C．a day for girls to know about jobs | | D．a day for girls to get a job easily |
小题3:On this special day, Cara has done all the following EXCEPT that ____.| A．she learned to use scales | | B．she worked as an actress | | C．she went to work with her aunt | | D．she used toothpicks and Candy to build a bridge |
小题4:What is probably the best title for the passage?| A．Cara Lang, a Fortunate Girl | | B．Take Our Daughters to Work Day | | C．Children"s Day and Work Day | | D．Ms. Foundation, an Organization for Women |
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Subways
The Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines
| Features: The Tokyo Metro and Toei lines that make up of Tokyo’s huge subway system carry almost 8 million people each day, making it the busiest system in the world. The system is famous for its oshiya-- literally “pusher”--- who push passengers into crowded subway cars so the doors can close. And you think your ride is hell.
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Moscow Metro
| Features: The Moscow Metro has some of the most beautiful stations in the world. The best of them were built during the Stalinist era and feature chandeliers (枝行吊灯)，marble moldings and elaborate murals(精美壁画). With more than 7 million riders a day, keeping all that marble clean has got to be a burden.
| The Hong Kong MTR
| Features: The Hong Kong MTR has the distinction of being one of the few subway systems in the world that actually turns a profit（利润）. It’s privately owned and uses real estate development along its tracks to increase income and ridership. It also introduced “Octopus cards” that allow people to not only pay their fares electronically, but buy stuff at convenience stores ,supermarkets, restaurants and even parking meters. It’s estimated that 95% of all adults in Hong Kong own an Octopus card.
| Shanghai Metro
| Features: Shanghai is the third city in China to build a metro system, and it has become the country’s largest in the 12 years since it opened. Shanghai Metro has 142 miles of track and plans to add another 180 miles within five years. By that point, it would be three times larger than Chicago “L”. The system carries about 2.18 million people a day.
| The London Metro
| Features: Londoners call their subway the Underground, even though 55 percent of it lies above ground. No matter when you’ve got the oldest mass-transit system in the world, you can call it anything you like. Trains started in 1863 and they’ve been running ever since. Some 3 million people ride each day, every one of them remembering to “Mind the gap”
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小题1:______ is done with the purpose of making money.| A．The Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines | B．The Moscow Metro | | C．Shanghai Metro | D．The Hong Kong MTR |
小题2:We can learn from the passage that Shanghai Metro______.| A．carries the most people each day | | B．is the world’s largest | | C．may be larger than the Chicago “L” in the future | | D．is the busiest in the world |
小题3:How many subways carry more than 5 million people per day?小题4:What can be inferred from the passage?| A．Shanghai is the third to build a metro system in China, which has become the largest in the world. | | B．You’ll feel sick when you travel on the Tokyo Metro and Toei Lines. | | C．Londoners call their subway the Underground because 55 percent of it lies above ground. | | D．It is estimated that 95% of the population in Hong Kong own an Octopus card |
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An Australian man who has been donating(捐献) his extremely rare kind of blood（血液） for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.
James Harrison has an antibody（抗体） in his plasma(血浆) that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia(贫血). He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father"s blood.
Mr. Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now racked up a total of 984 donations. When he started donating, his blood was deemed so special that his life was insured（保险） for one million Australian dollars.
He was also nicknamed the “man with the golden arm” or the “man in two million”. He said, “I"ve never thought about stopping. Never!” He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 liters of blood. “I was in hospital for three months,” he said. “The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18.”
Just after he started donating he was found to have the rare（稀有的） and life-saving antibody in his blood. At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent(永久的) brain damage because of the condition. The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother"s blood and her unborn baby"s blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive（阳性） blood and the other Rh-negative（阴性）.
His blood has since led to the development of a vaccine called Anti-D. After his blood type was discovered, Mr. Harrison volunteered to undergo a series of tests to help develop the Anti-D vaccine. “They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of,” he said. “I wasn"t scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away.”
Mr. Harrison is Rh-negative and was given injections of Rh-positive blood. It was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women. It has also been given to babies after they are born to stop them developing the disease.
It is estimated he has helped save 2.2 million babies so far. Mr. Harrison is still donating every few weeks now.
小题1:How old is James Harrison?小题2:What does the underlined phrase “two million” refer to?| A．mothers | B．babies | C．dollars | D．blood |
小题3:Why did James decide to donate his blood? Because _____.| A．his daughter asked him to help her son | | B．he has a golden arm worth a million dollars | | C．a vaccine called Anti-D is to be developed | | D．someone else’s blood saved his life |
小题4:The sentence “The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother"s blood and her unborn baby"s blood” (underlined in Paragraph 5) suggests that _____.| A．the mother and the baby have different types of blood | | B．babies suffer permanent brain damage before born | | C．Rhesus disease contributes to permanent brain damage | | D．all the patients have a rare antibody in their blood |
小题5:What can we infer from the sixth paragraph?| A．His wife Barbara needed to be taken care of badly then. | | B．Mr. Harrison was not glad to help develop a new vaccine. | | C．Some of the tests to develop the vaccine are dangerous. | | D．His blood type was accidentally discovered after tests. |
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Early last Tuesday, six men carrying machine guns, a pistol and a hunting rifle got on a four—car electric “ milk train” at the Dutch town of Assen. Shortly after it left Beilen, ten miles away, the terrorists stopped the train and seized the passenger as hostages. As police and Dutch soldiers ringed the train, another group of terrorists stuck in Amsterdam, forcing their way into the Indonesian consulate and taking 41 more hostages, including 16 children. By week’s end the terrorists had murdered three people aboard the train, and four more had been wounded in the raid on the consulate.
The kidnapping, and the subsequent cold—blooded murders, virtually rocked the Netherlands. While the Cabinet met in emergency sessions, television and radio station paused normal programming in favor of solemn music and news bulletins.
The terrorists were Indonesians from the South Moluccan Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and they were demanding that the Dutch help them gain independence from the Jakarta regime.(雅加达政权)
The twin acts of violence were not the first signs of South Molucca anger. Just before a 1970 visit to the Netherlands by Indonesia’s President Suharto, they attacked the Indonesian embassy in the Hague, killing a Dutch policeman. Last week’s kidnappings are two days before the Dutch Appeals Court was to trial 16 South Moluccan’s who were implicated in a plot last April to kidnap Queen Juliana and other members of the Royal family. They planned to storm the palace at Soestdijk after attacking the gates with an armoured car(装甲车).
The Moluccan headache is a heritage(遗留问题) of the old days of empire. A chain of islands at the eastern of the Indonesian archipelago, the Moluccas were once known as the Spice Islands. When the Netherlands gave up its East Indies colonies in 1949, the Moluccans wanted to set up a South Moluccan Republic, some 12,000 islanders were allowed to settle to the Netherlands. Their number swollen by Dutch—born children now reached 35,000. the young Moluccans here are demanding that the Dutch help them gain independence from the Jakarta regime.
小题1:Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?| A．Dozens of people were seized by the terrorist as hostages. | | B．The Indonesian consulate was located in Amsterdam. | | C．The terrorists were Indonesians living in the Netherlands. | | D．The terrorists all surrendered(投降) to the police and soldiers. |
小题2:Why did television and radio stations pause normal programming?| A．The acts of violence shocked the whole country. | | B．The terrorists destroyed necessary equipment. | | C．the Cabinet needed to think quietly. | | D．Their men were too sad to produce good program. |
小题3:The last paragraph __________. | A．is mainly about the history of Indonesia | | B．tells us how Indonesia won its independence | | C．tell us how the Netherlands gave up its rule | | D．briefly accounts for the acts of violence |
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An 8-year-old girl was dragged about 900 feet by a school bus today in Livingston County.
According to State Police, the incident occurred about 2：40 pm on State Route 436 in the town of Ossian after three sisters were dropped off the bus.
As the last sister was leaving the bus, driver John Coley, 62 , of Wayland, Steuben County, told the police that he was not paying attention when he closed the door and trapped her backpack inside. Coley then continued 900 feet before he realized the girl was being dragged, State Police said.
The girl was hurt and was transported to Nicholas H Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville，Livingston County, by Dansville Ambulance.
Another 8-year-old child on the bus said he hit his head on the seat in front of him when the bus came to a sudden stop, causing an earache.
●Conservation staff in New Zealand have put down 33 stranded（搁浅的）whales after several attempts to refloat them failed.
The whales were shot on Farewell Spit on the South Island. Department of Conservation area manager John Mason says staff and hundreds of volunteers had tried all week to get the whales refloated.
He says they thought they were successful on Wednesday when they got the whales into deep water——but were saddened on Thursday to find that they had swum back ashore. He says the condition of the whales had significantly become worse.
As well as the 33 whales that were shot，36 had died naturally since Monday and 17 were successfully refloated. 13 remain unknown.
小题1:The last sister was dragged by the bus because______________.| A．she stood too close to the bus when getting off | | B．the bus driver stopped the bus suddenly | | C．something was wrong with the bus door | | D．her backpack was stuck in the closed door |
小题2:It can be inferred from the first news that______________．| A．three sisters were dragged about 900 feet by a school bus | | B．the driver stopped the bus immediately he realized his mistake | | C．two children were hurt and sent to hospital | | D．a boy was hurt when the bus started suddenly |
小题3:How many whales were trapped ashore in total?小题4:The 33 refloated whales returned ashore on______________.| A．Monday | B．Tuesday | C．Wednesday | D．Thursday |
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